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XML and PHP
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XML and PHP

by Vikram Vaswani
June 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
384 pages
7h 53m
English
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Exporting Database Records To XML

As the web moves to an XML-based paradigm, one of the most common problems faced by developers involves converting legacy data, usually stored in a database, into corresponding XML data. With this in mind, let’s look at some practical examples that demonstrate how data stored in an SQL-compliant database system can be converted into well-formed XML.

Note that the code listings in this section assume the existence of a MySQL database and a familiarity with PHP’s database access functions (specifically, its MySQL functions). In case you don’t already have MySQL, you can download it from http://www.mysql.com/, and SQL dump files for the database tables used in this section may be obtained from this book’s companion ...

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